Nor was that vacuum limited to settling internal disputes.
Neither parliamentary tribe appears much interested in anything much beyond settling internal scores, and certainly nothing happening beyond the shadow of Big Ben.
But Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton administered a dose of tough love, saying Yemen, an impoverished Arab nation, must earn increased foreign aid by rooting out corruption, settling internal strife and protecting the rights of girls and young women.
The resolution requires the United Nations to help the Iraqi government with goals including reconciling political factions, meeting the needs of returning refugees and settling internal boundary disputes, like deciding whether the semiautonomous Kurdistan region will include the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
Every weapon in the country, he said, should "remain in the service of the goal for which it was intended": defending Lebanon against outsiders (ie, Israel), and not settling internal squabbles.But he insisted that his "resistance" retained a sacred right to bear arms.
A North Korea consumed with settling internal political scores will likewise leave little hope for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to gain traction with her policy of "trustpolitik".
A North Korea consumed with settling internal political scores will likewise leave little hope for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to gain traction with her policy of "trustpolitik". Following the shutdown of the inter-Korean Kaesong industrial complex this year, the two Koreas worked to restore those operations.
Chieftainship does not appear to have been hereditary but was ceded to a leader able in settling both internal disputes and conflicts between bands.
Next month, the Senate's bureau, an internal body responsible for settling procedural or disciplinary issues, will decide whether the case shall go to court.
Amazon settled internal tensions by giving its retail managers credit for any products sold on their pages, even by third-party sellers.
